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  1. Re:Simple on Oz High Court Hears Landmark TV Guide Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    A company in Australia created an edition of the phone book on cd. they where sued by Telstra and it was determined to be infringement so it may be a grey area.

  2. Re:Choice. on E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    He is quite active in #openmoko on freenode.net and is still active as a developer.
    I am not sure if he is still an employee or not but he is still involved.

  3. Re:MySQL + Oracle = MyOracle on Continuent To Bring Open Source DB Replication To the Oracle World · · Score: 1

    I think unstable, i have only run it on ubuntu.

  4. Re:MySQL + Oracle = MyOracle on Continuent To Bring Open Source DB Replication To the Oracle World · · Score: 1

    You just need to add the right repo's (to get oracle xe)

    deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free

    to /etc/apt/sources.list and then:

    # wget http://oss.oracle.com/el4/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle -O- | sudo apt-key add -
    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install oracle-xe

  5. Re:Oh, my. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    I believe much of the control software is written in java.

  6. Re:That's what bothers me on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 5, Informative

    By law the white house must keep an archive of all messages. Unfortunately bush "accidental" lost 2 years of email archives.

  7. Re:Great learning tool. But what else? on Debian On the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner Phone · · Score: 2

    openmoko is the only one that is not currently vaporware.
    There is a sdk called android, and a promise to open source symbian (anyone know the licence?).
    The only phone and software stack where you can actually make any changes is openmoko, we need to wait till the first devices come out and for google to decide before android is open source and who knows how many months/years till simbian is open.

    It does have 2.5g (edge) so it should be fast enough for some internet even if it isn't as fast as 3g.
    The extra speed is also only usefull if your network has good coverage and edge is more available at the moment.

  8. Re:I'd buy that for a dollar on TechCrunch Wants To Create an Open Source Tablet · · Score: 1

    Hhow dare you come up with a complete business model.

  9. Re:Coolest place looking for the hottest bang? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    we have gotten to within several decimal places to absolute zero (i think it was 20 or more).
    At this temperature there is the state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate and at this state light can be slowed down significantly.

  10. Re:New editions of old music on Provider of Free Public Domain Music Re-Opens · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Rosegarden for notation and lilypond for typesetting.

  11. Re:Colour? on First Pictures From Mars Phoenix Lander · · Score: 1

    You mean he used the spelling that a majority of countries use, just not yours so it must be wrong.

  12. Re:How about reprogramming it as a CPU? on Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders · · Score: 1

    The toaster can run NetBSD not linux.

  13. Re:12 GB HDD Vs 20 GB HDD on In Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900 · · Score: 1

    the L stands for linux.
    The model WRT54GL contains linux where WRT54G does not contain linux.

  14. Re:worthless on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    You do not need the Chinese to break the captcha when you can forward the captcha to someone else and get them to break it for you.

    What i have heard is that some adult websites have a captcha that is forwarded from a site like yahoo. The visitor will be presented the picture and solve it and then the adult site will use the solution to register with yahoo or whatever.

    If all you need to do is pass on the solving to someone else then there is no way of telling between a real person and a real person by proxy.

  15. Re:oblig on Why Microsoft Surface Took So Long To Deploy · · Score: 1

    The last i heard it was planned to be in the main xorg in a release or two. I was in the audience at linux.conf.au, Video and he also did a presentation at our lug
    The pointer on the screen is separate from the mouse and keyboard, you can potentially have a many to many relationship between keyboards and mice so you could potentially have a single keyboard to multiple terminals. To get everything working you need to run a command to attach this keyboard to this mouse and generate a pointer. You can start writing applications that will take advantage of multiple pointers if you base your input on Ximput where events include what mouse the event came from.

    If you look around there may be something that will repeat multiple key presses to multiple terminals already out there but i cannot remember the name at the moment.

  16. Re:Does this match up with other Australian laws? on ARIA Sells a Licence for DJs to Format Shift Music · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a "time shifting" exception that allows you to make a recording of tv recordings for your own purposes.

    There is also a "format shifting" making it legal to rip a cd and place the music on your portable player.

    The problem with these exceptions are that they are for non commercial uses. it is fine for YOU as a citizen to do it for yourself but not as a PUBLIC performance which has always been a separate part of the law. If you are getting paid to do it in public you have always been required to pay a licence like this, perhaps the only difference is the industry body is now doing this. It seems just another way of clearing this public use of music which you would have ether gone to the record company itself or another agent to do this.

  17. Re:Use the e-flux capacitor! on Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days · · Score: 1

    Why not use google's gDay and receive tomorrow's search engine results today!

  18. Re:While servers are meltin... on Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched · · Score: 1

    8.10 is intrepid ibex.The announcement is found in this message

  19. linux.conf.au presentation on Australia's Geekiest Man · · Score: 1

    The presentation mentioned in the article that he gave at linux.conf.au was "Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World". Part 1 Part 2 Slides

  20. Anything like verasigns pip? on Hardware Based OpenID Service Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe this already exists with verasigns pip https://pip.verisignlabs.com/ . In this you have a hardware key that rotates it's numbers every 30 seconds.

  21. Re:Don't worry MS, the OLPC will fail on No Dual-Boot XO Laptop, According to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You have not been paying attention, there are real children who have them NOW in brazil and nigeria and a few other countries.
    Sure they have not had the huge orders and roll outs yet but the fact that it exists now in pilot programs is something.

  22. Re:So... on Stay Lifted, Novell Vs. SCO Can Go Forward · · Score: 1

    After seeing the occasional error message from their websites they do use a lot of j2ee.
    If you crash the web pages and it will print a stack trace that indicates that the pages are running under tomcat.

  23. Re:The first two-thirds of the game is a warm-up on A Peek Through Portal's Walls · · Score: 1

    The SDK was released last week I believe.

  24. Re:The summary contradicts itself on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    There are 3 distributions with LEGAL mp3 support mepis, linspire and suse (not sure about open suse), there may be more.

    These distributions are legal as they do license the patents which can be done by everyone if they choose to pay for it. There is also the legal option of getting mp3 support from fluendo who also has payed the license fees and allows you to download support for free.

  25. Re:Don't assume they'll be just be used for good on David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    I believe the quote is from Jingo by Terry Pratchett: "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."